wake

InfoA wake is the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary solid body, caused by the flow of surrounding fluid around the body.

As early as 1911, William S. Sadler and his wife Lena Sadler, physicians in Chicago and well known in the community, are said to have been approached by a neighbor who was concerned because she would occasionally find her husband in a deep sleep and breathing abnormally.She reported that she was unable to wake him at these times.The Sadlers came to observe the episodes, and over time, the individual produced verbal communications that claimed to be from "student visitor" spiritual beings.…

Much has been written in the wake of this battle over how it was conducted.Both sides made strategic and tactical missteps which could have altered the outcome of the battle.…

A fracture was discovered in Maria's spine.When she woke up she had no feeling in the lower part of her body.Donna tried to lift Maria's spirits and tried to get her to make friends with another patient on the ward.…

After the fire, Nero opened his palaces to provide shelter for the homeless, and arranged for food supplies to be delivered in order to prevent starvation among the survivors.In the wake of the fire, he made a new urban development plan.Houses after the fire were spaced out, built in brick, and faced by porticos on wide roads.…

Had he not waked in her such music as her soul had never known before?Had he not opened for her the gates of the forbidden land?…Cited from The Bars of Iron, by Ethel May Dell

Near the place he had vacated, the lady of the house was huddled under a coverlid about as large as a postage stamp, and did not appear encumbered with much clothing.Three or four others had waked and made some attempt to cover themselves.At least a dozen remained asleep and lay in a charming condition of nudity.…Cited from Overland through Asia (Illustrated), by Thomas Wallace Knox

So, he stood beside her with the glass of water in his hand for the whole night.At last, it was early morning when his mother woke up from sleep.…

Irving locked himself in his room and wrote non-stop all night.As he said, he felt like a man waking from a long sleep.He presented the first draft of "Rip Van Winkle" to the Van Wart family over breakfast.…

He did not wait for the bell to call twice, any more than he did for his parents to call twice.Every part of him waked up at once, from his head to his feet.His feet were as wide awake as his eyes, as any person would have inferred who had seen them start from the bed.…Cited from The Bobbin Boy, by William M. Thayer

On April 16, 1911, Easter Sunday, when Angelina was six months pregnant, Pietro told her to go out and make money through sex or he would beat her, kill her, or kill her unborn child.He was going to sleep and she had until he woke to get some money.That afternoon, as Pietro slept in their top-floor apartment on James Street, Angelina took an axe and hit him four times in the neck and head, killing him.…

The premise is that the desert scenes of the previous videos were merely a nightmare 2Pac was having.When he wakes up, he finds himself in his bed beside a woman.He calls Dr. Dre, who tells him to get over to his summer house because he's throwing a house party.…

She woke up only to be found in the arms of a god.This is how she came with child, Amphissus.…

And at this moment we have just finished walking with her in a nightmare.In a moment she'll wake up and we'll remain at her side.…

Things like that had happened to her but she had not supposed that grown people had such experiences.She remembered a day during the previous week when she had waked up cross.A dozen matters went wrong before she left the house to go to school.…Cited from Ethel Morton at Rose House, by Mabell S. C. Smith

There he was "totally diped in the said well, aving no fileing [feeling] thereof, and being brought upp was wrapped by Mary Burke in a wollin plaide (wollen plaid)."He was left to sleep for about fifteen minutes till his mother woke him.He began to cry, blaming her for interrupting a vision he was having of "Our Lord Jesus Christ and his blessed mother and a multitude of brave winged birdes."…

It did not wake the woman, but very softly it picked up the infant and bore it off to the stony cave that is hard by to Creevagh in the hill that was afterwards called Mount Cormac.After a while the mother waked up and found her child gone.…Cited from The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland

Wherever his place may be in the future, he's done us a grand service to-night, and don't let's forget it.He's waked these people up as none other of us could have done.He's started this strike in such a fashion as none other of us could.…Cited from A People's Man, by E. Phillips Oppenheim

He was not to sleep restfully that night.He waked again, but very slowly, and without any movement of his body.…Cited from Clementina, by A.E.W. Mason

These were apparently his last words as he went back to sleep and never woke up.

After Stevie gives Alex the coin, Alex wishes that he'd never had a little brother.The next day, he wakes up, only to find that his wish has come true.…